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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1972
Page
4
The city council approved adjustments to state grants for three wastewater projects. The WPC allocations total $19,624 for project 230, $9,774 for project 993, and $4,130 for project 259, affecting Cedar Rapids water pollution control efforts.
Cedar Rapids city council met in regular session approving numerous resolutions. Actions include a parkade contract payment, water main projects, sidewalk and street work, beer licenses for multiple venues, and permits for parades and public events. Also authorized studies with US Geological Survey and budget adjustments for land purchases and land conveyance to Cargill Inc. and others.
A petition from C.R. Aerie 2272 of the Fraternal Order of Eagles seeks city action to install a street light on Sev street. The document lists the requesting organization and locality, outlining the public safety concern and requested illumination improvement.
Arthur R. Taylor, 37, a newcomer to broadcasting and vice president and chief financial officer of International Paper Co., was named president and director of the Columbia Broadcasting System. He succeeds Charles Ireland Jr., who died June 8.
McGovern strategists plan to raise 96.5 million for the presidential bid, aiming for 15 million in special gifts. A private Doral hotel meeting netted 1.3 million, with 80 percent of funds from small donors since the campaign began.
Tropical Storm Agnes swept five states last month killing over 100 and leaving thousands homeless. The National Hurricane Center estimated about 28.1 trillion gallons dumped on Virginia Maryland Pennsylvania New Jersey and New York, making Agnes one of the era’s great rainmakers up to date.
Former National Assemblyman Kim Kyu Nam was hanged in Seoul for involvement in a North Korea spy ring. He was 43, arrested in 1968 with 17 others. the ring operated in Europe and Japan. He testified he had visited East Berlin and Pyongyang before his arrest. He had been elected in 1967 with the Democratic Republican party.
Arthur A. Houghton Jr., a New York industrialist and Steuben Glass president, donates his Sutton Place townhouse to the U N A S A for Kurt Waldheim. The UN association will sell the home to the United Nations, aiding Waldheim to move before the General Assembly opens September 19.
About 3,000 snowballs were airlifted to Miami Beach for a Democratic national convention event by supporters of a New York businessman seeking the vice presidential nomination. The bags were labeled Stanley Arnold Snow balling for Vice-President and distributed to delegates after a route from Oshkosh to Chicago, then by jet to Miami.
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